VIRTUAL EVENT
13 MAY
8:30AM IST | 11AM SGT | 1PM AEST | 3pm NZST

How to Architect for Data & AI: Maximizing Return on Investment

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DIVE INTO INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING AN
ENTERPRISE DATA + AI PLATFORM WITH BUSINESS OUTCOMES

With the right data, technology, and access to the ecosystem, any financial services firm can accelerate business-critical workflows. Accelerate is Snowflake’s annual virtual event where industry leaders showcase and share how they’re accelerating with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
Hear from NatWest on how they are modernizing their technology stacks to enhance data access. Learn about different data architecture patterns and how organizations can put secure self-service data consumption at its core. And hear from AWS and S&P Global on the latest AI / ML use cases driving efficiencies, as well as new data experiences. Accelerate Financial Services will feature customer proof-points, demos, and real-world use cases that turn the art of the possible into real implementations.

WHY ATTEND

  • Learn What’s Top of Mind: Hear from executives and thought-leaders on their current and future priorities, as well as how they’re looking to further their partnership with Snowflake.
  • Hear Snowflake Success Stories: Hear directly from industry-leading organizations on how they are streamlining their data pipelines, tapping into their unstructured data, enabling internal data collaboration, and powering AI ROI with Snowflake.
  • Discover AI Data Cloud Use Cases: Learn about how you can implement gen AI use cases for both internal and commercial use cases – all with security and compliance at the forefront.

Agenda

SESSION DURATION SESSION DETAILS
60 Minutes
The 2025 Financial Services State of the Union

With a continuously changing macroenvironment and evolving customer demands, coupled with a more focused and nuanced understanding of AI and other emerging technologies, 2025 will be a critical year that defines the winners and laggards in financial services.

Join Kaushik GD, Industry Principal, Financial Services at Snowflake , Karthik Venkatraman, Senior Solution Engineer at Snowflake, and Terence Timbang, Senior Solution Engineer at Snowflake, to explore how the Financial Services Data Cloud can accelerate your data and AI transformation. Learn how organiations are shaping their enterprise data and AI strategies to drive long-term business success.

Kaushik GD
Industry Principal, Financial Services
Snowflake

Karthik Venkatraman
Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake

Terence Timbang
Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake
30 Minutes
Hear from NatWest Group

Hear from NatWest Group on how they drive data, technology, and organizational transformation within their companies. Explore what is top of mind, what business and technology challenges they’re looking to solve, how they have partnered with Snowflake, and where they see the industry moving.

Wilson Sinclair
Head of Principal Engineering – Data Technology Platforms | Distinguished Engineer
NatWest Group
30 Minutes
Hear from AWS

Reimagining Finance: Data as the Catalyst for Innovation

In today’s fast-evolving financial services landscape, innovation is no longer optional—it’s foundational. Having the right data is not just a necessity; it’s your competitive edge. This session explores how leading financial institutions are reinventing themselves for a digital-first future. From intelligent automation to launching new products and personalising services, learn how AWS and enable secure, scalable, and compliant data platforms that power AI-driven decision-making, operational excellence, and innovation—at scale—across the financial enterprise.

Anjul Ray
FSI Partner Leader
Amazon Web Services

30 Minutes
Hear from S&P Global

Questioning the Answers: Decoding Earnings Calls with LLMs in the Boardroom

In today’s markets, trust isn’t just reputational—it’s a source of quantifiable alpha. In this session, discover how S&P Global’s Quantitative Research & Solutions (QRS) team is revolutionising the way executive credibility is assessed—using Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyse over 192,000 machine-readable earnings call transcripts. Get a practical look at how generative AI is moving beyond the hype, enabling smarter, data-driven decisions in the boardroom.
Their research, Questioning the Answers, focuses on the unscripted Q&A between executives and analysts—where evasive or off-topic responses can suggest avoidance, and transparent answers build investor confidence. By scoring executives on proactiveness (how well prepared remarks anticipate analyst questions) and on-topic alignment (how directly they respond), they uncovered a powerful predictive signal. The result? Firms with proactive, on-topic leaders outperformed their peers by up to 506 bps annually in a long/short portfolio.

Liam Hynes
Global Head of New Product Development – Public Markets
S&P Global Market Intelligence

10 Minutes
What's Next

This session will provide a summary of essential insights to equip your teams with industry best practices on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.

David Wakeman
Director, Product Marketing and Evangelism
Snowflake

Speakers

Kaushik GD

Industry Principal, Financial Services
Snowflake

Karthik Venkatraman

Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake

Terence Timbang

Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake

Wilson Sinclair

Head of Principal Engineering - Data Technology Platforms | Distinguished Engineer
NatWest Group

Anjul Ray

FSI Partner Leader
Amazon Web Services

Liam Hynes

Global Head of New Product Development - Public Markets
S&P Global Market Intelligence

David Wakeman

Director, Product Marketing and Evangelism
Snowflake